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Virgin Annunciate (Antonello da Messina, Munich)

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Virgin Annunciate
ArtistAntonello da Messina
Year1473
MediumOil on wood
Dimensions43 cm × 32 cm (17 in × 13 in)
LocationAlte Pinakothek, Munich

The Munich Virgin Annunciate is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Antonello da Messina.[1] Like the more famous Palermo version of the same subject, it shows Mary interrupted at her reading by the Angel of the Annunciation.

References

  1. ^ Walter Melion, Lee Palmer Wandel (2015). Image and Incarnation: The Early Modern Doctrine of the Pictorial Image. BRILL. p. 86. Retrieved 2020-01-12.